The morphology of three marine heterotrichous ciliates, Condylostentor auriculatus (Kahl, 1932) Jankowski, 1978, Condylostoma minutum Bullington, 1940 and c. spatiosum Ozaki & Yagiu in Yagiu, 1944 (Ciliophora: Heterotrichida)

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 289-309

  Chen, Xiangrui ^a   Song, Weibo ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^b   Warren, Alan ^c   Long, Hongan ^a   Shao, Chen ^a   Al Farraj, Saleh A ^b   Gong, Jun ^d   Hu, Xiaozhong ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heterotrichea; Infraciliature; Marine ciliates; Morphology; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; CONDYLOSTOMA; HETEROTRICHEA; HETEROTRICHIDA; STENTOR (CILIATE); STENTORIDAE;

EID: 65849410735     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: 16890027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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